Sulu (John Yohan Cho)
Date of Birth: 16th June 1972
Star Sign: Gemini
Nick Name: None Yet
Born: Seoul, South Korea
Height: 5′ 10″ (1.78 m)
Best known roles:
- John, the guy who coined the expression “MILF” (Mother I’d Like F**k) in 1999′s “American Pie”
- Investment banker Harold Lee in 2004′s “Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle”
In a recent interview on SPACE John Cho described working with George Takei, “Star Trek’s” original Mr. Sulu. Takei encouraged the nervous actor with these words: “Don’t worry about…soon they’ll be calling me the old John Cho.”
Playing the famed “Star Trek” helmsman was a dream come true for Cho, particularly since Asian-Americans considered Takei a hero for representing their ethnic group so positively on TV.
Fencing, top-notch piloting skills, advanced physics…Cho does it all as Sulu, the biggest role of his career.
It’s a far cry from Cho’s early days as a teen model for Korean magazines – something he did after he and his family moved to Los Angeles in 1978.
Launching his acting career in local theatre, this 1996 English graduate from the University of Berkeley scored his first big-screen success with 1999′s “American Pie.”
Cho followed that comic hit with 2004′s “Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle.”
Named one of People magazine’s sexiest men alive in 2006, Cho’s sleek presence and deadly way with a fencing blade should help “Star Trek” kill at the summer box office.
Source for this article is CTV